Finding an audience mostly. I understand that is how the Internet works, with thousands and thousands of posts a day, an hour, a second even and that we all need to care about community building.

One thing I found is even when we follow people we never actually see the content of the people we are following because there is so much of it :)

But it’s pretty lonely and seems to take a while to actually discover stuff worth following and worthy a comment, unless one loves being one of thousands using and posting to stuff on the homepage trending page. Navigation, generally on-boarding, is (pardon my French) piss poor an experience.

I agree. The on-boarding is definitely lacking. The experience is going to happen away from SteemIt soon.

At least... I discovered busy. I heard you can get a free upvotes from them by posting via busy rather than Steemit?!

Not sure about that, but could be true. I know with ChainBB it used to be they would upvote you .

EDIT: I meant trending page, not homepage. I’m still struggling to find authors I like to follow, without following what seems to be usual suspects (I mean those with high rep). I like small discoveries.

I got it! :)